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Realization: the reason I hate the new gTLDs is also one of the reasons I hate emoji: a governing body that has actual stuff to do is also now in charge of deciding which things in the world are particularly important this year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_t…

eev.ee/blog/2016/04/1…

(my take on emoji is a little different from @eevee's but theirs is close enough)
@eevee I keep mentioning the internal (joke) talk I gave about hating emoji, so here's a lightning summary:

1. Color ruins text rendering
2.
3. grouplens.org/blog/investiga…
4. Accessibility (screenreaders)
5. They're unbounded
[…]
6/7. ZWJ sequences cause technical problems, aren't supported everywhere
8. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
9. Unnecessary gendering (despite Unicode saying not to)
10. Existing characters getting rendered as emoji

Conclusion: AOL/Slack/GitHub got it right with ligatures (e.g. :sob:)
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